Improvement in smut-machines



JESSE LANTZ.

Improvement inV Smut Machines.

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IMPROVEMENT IN SMUT-MACHlNES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 115,620, dated J une 6, 1871.

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My invention Vrelates to that class of mill,

called smut-machines; and it consists, iirst, in the particular construction of a rubber or scourer to break the smut-pods and to free any grains of wheat to which it may adhere of the same, that the smut may be the better separated from the wheat; and, second, to the combination and arrangement of said rubber with other parts of the machine, each as hereinafter fully set forth.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of a smut-machine through its center, showing the construction and arrangement of all its main parts, and the particular construction and arrangement of my invention. Fig. 2 is au inside end view of the outside part of the rubber, showing its iiuted or ribbed interior. Fig. 3 is an outside top view of the other part ofthe rubber, also showing that it is ribbed or iiuted on its outside.

Iwill now describe the main parts of the machine, and afterward the particular part and combination I claim as new.

. Ais the supporting-frame; E, arched spouts, coming together at Z F, place for hopper; B, end of spout E, through which the wheat passes from hopperE to hopper G H, beater, which consists of a vertical center frame, fixed to shaft,A upon which are iixed, alternately, numerous horizontal pins, the whole of which are inclosed by an open-ended perforated cylinder. I is the outside part of my rubber; J, the inside part of the same, both of which parts will be fully described hereafter; L, a hollow circular frame on top of perforated cylinder inclosing fan M; M, a fan xed to shaft, inclosed by perforated cylinder 4, which fan is so made that the lower portions of the fans almost touch the perforated baseN; O, perforations on the outside of base N, through which the smut and dust are driven l?, wheatspout leading from center of base N to discharge-spout E R, air-chamber; S, fan xed to shaft; T, opening from air-chamber into fan S; U, opening into spout E from air-chamber; V, main shaft, running the whole length of the body of the machine, to which beater H, inside of rubber J, and fans M and S, are iirmly attached; W, common provision for raising and lowering the shaft so as to regulate and set the parts thereto attached; X, driving wheel on shaft Y, cheat-and-cockle discharge; Z, sliding gate to regulate the admission of air into fan.

Having given a general description of the but not so large as to prevent it from being well rubbed, while passing, by the revolving of the inside part. Each part is in form like a hollow frustum of a cone, having its lower end open and the top closed, but somewhat concave on the outside. The top of the outside part I has an opening therein to allow the grain to enter in between the two. The exterior surface of the inside part J is vertically iluted or ribbed, and the inside surface of the outside part I is also iiuted in like manner as the former one. The inside part J is made fast to the main shaft through its vertical center, and the outside part I is placed over and around it so as to leave the grain-space be tween them, as before described. The latter remains xed, while the former revolves within it. The construction of flutes or ribs and the openings inpeach part are shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the former being an inside end view of the outside part, and the latter an outside end view of the outside part.

Operation.

The grain enters through spout B, when all light matter in it is drawn oif by an air-draft through right-hand spout E, the cheat and light grains of wheat coming out at Y, while the smut-and dust are taken in at U into air! drawn o by fan M; thence (Wheat) is disfan M, rubber I J, beater H, and the large fan charged through spout P; but When it passes S, when all constructed and operating substanthrough the spout E from spout P Lthe smut tially as shown, for the purpose setforth. and dirt are again taken from it by an air-sue- JESSE LANTZ. tion through spout E.

What I claim as my invention, and desire Witnesses: to secure by Letters Patent, is J. BOONE MOLURE,

The arrangement herein shown of the small S. M. HOWARD. 

